William Smith taught himself surveying from books he bought with his small savings, and at the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to a surveyor of the local parish.He then proceeded to teach himself geology, and when he was twenty-four, he went to work for the company that was excavating...
Skilled craftspeople, architects, and archaeologists, primarily from Scotland have taken turf courses at the Heritage Craft School. They do so because the knowledge of traditional turf building has been lost in their respective countries. Learning how to work with turf as a material helps with ...
William Smith taught himself surveying from books he bought with his small savings, and at the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to a surveyor of the local parish.He then proceeded to teach himself geology, and when he was twenty-four, he went to work for the company that was excavating...